moulder

[US]/'məʊldə/
[UK]/'moldɚ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vi. decay; decline
vt. cause to decay; cause to decline
n. a moulder, a worker who makes molds
Word Forms
Present Participlemouldering
Pluralmoulders
Third Person Singularmoulders
Past Participlemouldered
Past Tensemouldered

Phrases & Collocations

moulder growth

moulder spores

Example Sentences

there was a mushroomy smell of disuse and mouldering books.

I couldn't permit someone of your abilities to moulder away in a backwater.

Real-world Examples

Yet Kentish Town's shops and cafes are almost invariably untrendy and in some cases mouldering.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

But I shall lie alone, mother, within the mouldering grave.

Source: British Original Language Textbook Volume 4

Still did the hoof and heel their passage tear Through cloven helms and arms, and corses mouldering drear.

Source: British Original Language Textbook Volume 6

The live music market is flourishing even as sales of recorded music have mouldered.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

A great many of the tenements had shop-fronts; but these were fast closed, and mouldering away; only the upper rooms being inhabited.

Source: Oliver Twist (Original Version)

Then was it that, surrounded by mouldering bodies, I dared to perform those mystic rites which summoned to my aid a fallen Angel.

Source: Monk (Part 2)

Soon my form would be mouldering in that distant soil, or, perhaps, be cast to the slimy reptiles that filled the stagnant waters of the bayou!

Source: Twelve Years a Slave

It had a square mouldering tower, owning neither battlement nor pinnacle, and seemed a monolithic termination, of one substance with the ridge, rather than a structure raised thereon.

Source: A pair of blue eyes (Part 1)

Here, where all is falling into dimness and dissolution, and we walk in cedarn gloom, and the very air of heaven goes mouldering to the lungs, I cannot remain commonplace.

Source: Three mysterious people

Bearing in mind that we might not just have one company pension, we might have ones from old jobs that are mouldering away in those A4 envelopes, in drawers, you know, houses.

Source: Financial Times Podcast

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